Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential candidate, recently informed voters At a campaign event in Arizona, she said she believes “we have a duty to set and enforce rules at the border,” and that she takes that duty “very seriously.” but she is miserable record When it comes to human rights issues on our southern border, that suggests otherwise.
Ms. Harris and her running mate, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, represent a clear and present danger to families seeking to enter the United States, especially from the highest echelons of our nation. This clearly violates the Catholic perspective of being worthy of respect. leaders. All Americans, especially Catholics, should take Harris’ insensitivity toward immigration as a serious warning sign posed by a potential Harris-Waltz administration.
Before becoming vice president, Harris vowed to bring compassion to immigrants, but her words quickly proved misleading and painfully insincere. After being named President Joe Biden’s “border czar,” she said Refugees: “Please don’t come.” Her televised remarks were insensitive to families desperately trying to enter our country through the proper procedures. Worse, Harris’ words revealed her refusal to make the necessary efforts to improve the situation on the ground. suffering at the border An ongoing humanitarian crisis. Indeed, House Oversight and Accountability Committee officials say the executive order Harris wrote and implemented has since been dramatically improved. It got worse Crisis at the southern border.
of numbers Harris’ incompetence on immigration issues has been confirmed. While watching her, 1.9 million The “fugitives” entered the United States illegally with no clue about their background, what they were smuggling, or any possible criminal history. Even her colleague, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. admitted At least 70% of illegal border crossers were released into the country.
Asylum seekers of all kinds experience untold human suffering that Harris has failed to contain. Similarly, undocumented immigrants are denied basic workplace safety laws and are exposed to overwork and other types of abuse.
Perhaps worst of all, so many innocent immigrant children are going missing under Harris’ watch, and no one in the Biden administration seems to care. While 98% of missing children in the United States are eventually found, immigrant children are not so lucky. According to According to the Center for Public Integrity’s report to the FBI, “Of the 3,340 migrant children reported missing to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from October 2019 to April 2023, none were found. “It’s less than 1%.” This means that more than 3,300 vulnerable immigrant children are still missing in Harris’ America.
A recent report from the Biden administration found evidence that our Border Patrol agents are ill-equipped to monitor the whereabouts of young migrant children. As reported in the past five years, From ABC News“More than 32,000 unaccompanied immigrant children failed to appear for their immigration court hearings, and ICE was ‘unable to account’ for all of their whereabouts.”
“Without the ability to monitor locations and conditions, [unaccompanied migrant children]ICE has no warranty [they] Safe from human trafficking, exploitation and forced labor. ” I wrote Department of Homeland Security Inspector Joseph Kufari.
American families are also at great risk from permissive and open border policies. I recently turned 12 years old Jocelyn Nangaray She was allegedly raped and strangled to death by two illegal immigrants from Venezuela, who then allegedly threw her body under a bridge in Houston, Texas. A former senior official in the Biden-Harris administration admitted As reported this year Written by Axiossaid Harris was “at best ineffective, at worst sporadically involved, and unaware that the immigration crisis was ‘his responsibility.'” This was an opportunity for her, but she was unable to bridge the gap. ”
Jocelyn’s That’s how death should be This is a wake-up call to politicians at all levels, especially the White House, who have a moral obligation to protect all people from the criminals, rapists, drug dealers, and murderers who sneak onto American soil.
All Americans, including Catholics, have a duty to the Biden-Harris administration to protect vulnerable members of their communities, including those who have endured tremendous suffering as a result of the ongoing border crisis. .
Dr. Tim Huelskamp is a member of the 2024 RNC Platform Committee and represented the Kansas 1st District in Congress for six years. He has more than 30 years of campaign, policy, and legislative experience at both the federal and state levels and is a recognized national leader, policy maker, communicator, and election advisor.
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